Bar Che Lona

I made my first trip if the semester last weekend to barcelona (pronounced Barchelona in italian). Getting there was interesting. I took four forms of transportation in one day. Bike, Train, Plane and Bus. The totaly trip was just under four hours but still not very direct.

Barcelona is a huge city, about the same size of rome. It is very spread out so taking the metro is a must. Lucky for us the metro was pretty easy. I met my good bud shawn in the city and we stayed at my friend ty's place. Ty is studying in Barcelona this semester, however you wouldn't be able to tell if you asked him for directions. Ty is a ton of fun and was a great host, really showed us a good time. But he did not double as a tour guide. If we went outside his 5 block comfort zone it was up to shawn's spanish and my map. Lucky for us Shawn is fluent... more importantly for us i'm great at picking maps. Another plus were Ty's two roommates Murph (va tech) and Jack (U of A). They were aweso intuition me guys who suggested good places to eat and some fun bars. Barca was a learning experience for me, my first trip of the semester so I was learning, how to pack for a weekend (laptop convenient not recommended), how to travel from place to place (figure out trains and new airports), and how to land in a new city and figure out where to go (once again, the map intuition).

 Since I was very irresponsible and didn't charge my camera I didn't get too many pictures. I will post a second Barca post with some of Shawn's pictures. In that post I will go more into detail about what we did and what we saw. This post was more to warm up my writing mind for my creative writing paper and to appease my grumpy (but probably just hungry) older brother

Also I'm going to start posting links to music on youtube. It could be music i'm feeling or music I feel sums up a trip or place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28tZ-S1LFok